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		symlinkk on Aug 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 80 How far do you go with that? Should web browsers render .docx?

ocdtrekkie on Aug 25, 2020 | [–]

I mean, sure? XML-based document formats aren't really foreign to web browsers anyways, and it'd probably be a safer way to view third party documents than Word...

int_19h on Aug 25, 2020 | | [–]

And just like that, we'll reinvent OLE eventually, but with HTML5 and JavaScript.

notriddle on Aug 25, 2020 | [–]

Yeah, that would be awesome.

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